Dude... GET A MAC! [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-cool.gif[/img]

 

As long as it is a tower, you are correct. But, you can't even add a hard drive to the standard dells that we have here.

I am not knocking Dell, believe me. When our service tech calls them, they send someone to fix it. That is why I recommend them over the others.

Is BigBlack PGraham?

 

Pentium® 4 Processor at 2.40GHz w/533MHz front side bus/ 512K L2 Cache
512MB PC1066 RDRAM 2X256 modules 512M2P
Logitech® Wireless Keyboard and Optical Mouse Desktop Solution
Monitors: 17 in (16.0 in viewable,.27dp) E772 Monitor E772
New 128mb DDR ATI Radeon™ 9700 TX Graphics Card with TV-Out and DVI
New 120GB Ultra ATA/100 Hard Drive (7200 RPM) 120G
3.5 in Floppy Drive 3 [340-8628]
Microsoft® Windows® XP Home Edition 16 Max DVD-ROM Drive 16DV995
SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 Digital Sound Card
Harman Kardon® HK-395 Speakers with Subwoofer Limited Warranty, Services and Support Options: 1 Year Limited Warranty plus 1 Year At-Home Service Secondary CD or DVD Drive: 40x/10x/40x CD-RW Drive with Roxios Easy CD Creator® 40CDRW2

I quickly priced a Dell that was as close as I could get to my machine just to compare the price with what I just bought.

Differences

Dell Dimension 8250 pros = 16" viewable monitor, speakers, 1 year warranty, slightly faster processor $1,632

My system pros = 2 120GB hard drives, Motherboard with Raid controller, AGP 8X, and supports up to 3 gigs of RAM, PC3200 DDR Ram (one stick not dual 256's), 52X burner, cool case
Less than $1400

I could have trimmed the fat on mine some because I bought an expensive case and I bought the extra hard drive for the raid, but it was pretty close. If I had to buy a monitor, which I didn't b/c I already have a 19" viewable, the price would have been near the same. But with no warranty.

 

Due to the design of the bike frame it has little or no vibration at the handle bars ..in a Quad it will produce so much it will be hard just to hold on to the bars for more 15 minutes without major arm pump. that is of course assuming the thing runs that long, because it would vibrate itself to death. if you wish to check every nut and bolt for tightness before every ride then go for it.
The counter balancer is like a flywheel, it cancels most vibration before it is transmitted to the frame. I have heard of guys filling the frame with gel of some sort and using rubber engine / handle bar mounts to get rid of some of the vibrations but not all.
you might want to look into welding the blaster front frame onto the bike chassis and fabricating a swing arm to make four wheels before putting a non-counter balanced engine in a quad frame. If there was a benefit to putting a non-counterbalanced engine in a quad frame I would think every 250R ever made would have a 500R engine in it.
I say scrap the YZ250 engine into a Blaster frame idea and look for a 85-86 TRI-Z (yamaha 3 wheeler with a counterbalanced 250 engine) or a YZ250WR engine ,they both have counterbalancers and also lighting coils for headlights

 

build your own!!!!!!!
you will have fun doing it plus you will learn every thing about it and you'll de able to fix it ,upgrade it or what ever, PLUS it will be your BABY[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]


oh yea DOCDAVE i love that video card of yours . your system is nice but all you need now is one of those

3.6P4 HT"s[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]

a gamers dreammmmmm can you say frame rate speedddddddddddd

 

3.06P4 HT my badddddd[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]

 

My other computer is a Silicon Graphics workstation.

Its an old IndigoII with a brand new 21"monitor.
Got it when I used to work for SGI.

It only has a 250 Mhz MIPS proccessor in it, but in its day it kicked a$$

 

Man, it really smokes. I bought Medal of Honor and it plays like a champ. I found a bios for the card that allows you to overclock it, but haven't tried it yet.

My wallet just couldn't justify the P3.06

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3 Gateways and they have been ok

Stock info: Market Cap. 703.2 Million
Last stock quote: 2.17


1 new Dell purchased Dec 02

Stock info: Market Cap. 67.81 Billion
Last stock quote: 26.29

I purchased a Dell for this reason only. Gateway is financially in trouble.

Chet

 

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